I told myself I made the right choice. Maddy’s story was insane. It couldn’t be true. But some nights, when I was working late at the movie theatre I found myself wondering, what if she was right? What if she had been telling the truth? What if I really was someone else? Someone beautiful and powerful. Someone buried alive and suffocating to death — very far away, on the other side of the television screen. But I know that’s not true. That’s just fantasy. Kid’s stuff.
There is still time.
Only 12.5% of australian workers in 2022 were a union member. In 1988 it was 43.1%. It’s unacceptable that watching this documentary was my first time hearing about literally every single one of these industrial actions/strikes/work bans. If it wasn’t for the BLF and green bans centennial park would have a gigantic concentrate sports stadium in it and the botanic gardens would have been butchered for a fucking CAR PARK. What about when a property developer bought up an entire block of houses…
